Gregory's Server@CjMalone Someone needs to tell them about osm2pgsql, Pythonning your way through shapefiles doesn't sound like much fun...
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I would personally find it less challenging than using the OSM API to bring OSM tags back into a shapefile and dumping it to ArcGIS Online. But yeah, it's not like either option is super user-friendly. There are a few "easier" options I've seen out there, where you basically just edit a config file, and click "run". But step 1 is usually something like "pull this Docker image" or "clone this git repo", which is an automatic turnoff for a lot of folks. I do think there's some value in the model Esri's followed on this. They have an osm2pgsql service running updates at 15-minute intervals, and they make access to those services open to anyone. Those specific services don't have the specialized fields that Utah needs. I like to imagine if a wider group of organizations could coalesce around a schema and a geographic area of interest, maybe they could collectively support a shared instance. |
@jcarlson we need to improve the way people access our data. Asking people to download the planet (or an extract) is quite a challenge, before anything else